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Even afterward, she would not judge whether her choice was correct. For Lingye, this was more difficult than fighting the enemy.
Ultraman did not open the red light shield, there was no need. When the warships realized that they were attacking Gaia, they all ceased firing.
In any case, humans would not deliberately attack the Giant of Light.
Even Smith tried to control his anger. He would not, and did not dare to, order an attack on Ultraman.
No one would be willing to accept such an order.
The sound of naval gunfire stopped and the sea returned to calm.
On the other side, King Totas wanted to continue attacking the ships.
The two turtles were not super beasts, and they did not have any specially modified means of attack. The only thing they used to attack was the spheres of special explosive substances secreted from their bodies.
They dropped the spheres from the air like bombs, powerful enough to blow through the deck.
Gaia stretched out her hand as she watched the red spheres continue to fall from the sky.
Gaia Cut!
A large number of red balls were detonated in the air, without any omission.
The aftermath of the explosion rushed into the sky, causing King Totas to fall dozens of meters before he regained his balance.
But King Totas was still unwilling to give in and continued to attack.
"enough."
She said, and King Totas also understood.
It looked back at the island of Oron, where they had lived for hundreds of years. The beach was devastated by human bombing, and the continuous destruction of the warships' heavy artillery and missiles had changed the entire terrain.
Homes were destroyed.
King Totas may or may not know that, regardless of whether they can defeat this fleet or not, this place can no longer be a place for them to live.
Because humans see them as a threat, they can no longer live here, even though this place has always belonged to them.
But Gaia said to stop, no matter how wronged and angry they were, they had to stop.
There is no logic to this kind of thing.
But in this world humanity flourishes; this is the truth and the law.
This is true not only for demons, but also for other creatures. What is good for humans is defined as good, and what is a threat to humans is defined as evil. The world rewards the good and punishes the evil.
The general trend of humanity is like a raging fire, thriving to the extreme. If it weren't for the external threats of aliens and monsters that alerted humans, who knows how deep this prosperity would have gone.
Ling had no idea what the final outcome would be, but she had heard that many civilizations were not destroyed by internal or external troubles, but disappeared unnoticed in the unbridled prosperity.
On the beach, Kurosaki was running with two turtle eggs in his arms. He no longer had any hope for King Totas, but even if it was just two eggs, it meant that his hunt was not a complete failure.
He could repay the bank loan and live a respectable life when he returned to Tokyo.
Otherwise, he will be left with nothing but debt.
Animals never think about such things, but once humans lose their money, they lose the courage to live.
He felt that he was running at full speed, but in the sight of the giant creature, his speed was pitifully slow.
So after his vision was blocked by the huge shadow, Kurosaki had to stop.
Looking up, we can see two giant sea turtles blocking out the sun and sky. A 60-meter-tall sea turtle that can walk upright is undoubtedly a monster.
Heisaki knew very well that the turtle didn't crush him to pieces because of the two turtle eggs in his hand. But being stared at by those two pairs of crimson eyes, the turtle's anger had overwhelmed him.
He couldn't understand why Ultraman hadn't destroyed the monsters even though he had appeared. Ultraman was supposed to protect humans, he was a human!
"Gaia, don't you see the monsters? Come and destroy them!"
Kurosaki roared. He felt that he had every reason to be angry. What kind of Ultraman is he if he doesn't eliminate monsters for humans?
[Please return the two eggs to King Totas.]
He heard the voice.
But Kurosaki couldn't understand. Return the egg to the monster? Why? He hunted it, it was his!
He had paid everything, including mortgaging his house and his reputation, to have this hunting team and weapons and equipment. If he gave up, he would have nothing left when he returned to Tokyo.
He couldn't imagine how he would spend the rest of his life.
"No! We can't do this. This shouldn't happen! Gaia, I order you to kill them. Otherwise, why should we humans trust you in the future?"
This is what is said on TV and in newspapers. Ultraman will protect humans under any circumstances. They are on the side of humans, and monsters are their enemies.
Why is it that he is the only one whose situation is not like this?
But Gaia didn't move. She didn't fight the monster.
On the contrary, the two turtle eggs in his hands suddenly glowed red and broke free from his arms with a force that he could not resist at all.
Kurosaki wanted to catch the eggs or even smash them, but he couldn't. The two turtle eggs flew into the sky at a very fast speed and flew to the side of King Totas.
This time, Kurosaki really had nothing.
King Totas stepped down.
Ling also wanted to stop it, but found that her body did not move. For the first time, she watched the monster kill a human.
She remembered when Gaia gave her the light and said, accept it and fight for it.
Ling always thought that it was to protect humans from fighting monsters. She had done so in the past.
Is it really?
There has never been "justice" without premise and stance.
Kurosaki said that if she didn't kill the monster, she would lose the trust of humans.
In the distant sea, the human fleets were still facing each other from afar. The silence at this moment was only because Gaia was here, and they were waiting for the decision of the Giant of Light.
If Gaia sides with the monsters this time, will she really lose the trust of humanity?
Seven years have passed. Really, humans have suffered too much harm from monsters. Only humans living in this world can deeply feel the fear and hatred of monsters, whether they are from outer space or from the earth itself.
This fear is deeply engraved in my bones.
It is really difficult to let humans and monsters coexist.
"Come with me, King Totas."
In the ocean, on the bridge of the flagship aircraft carrier Hermes, Smith watched two turtles fly into the sky with Gaia.
The trouble was gone. This was good, he still felt that he had done nothing wrong. So the island of Orlon was at peace again.
This is the island of Oron, which belongs to humans.
Not only Orlon Island, but every inch of land on the earth should belong to humans. In order to protect the environment and the ecological chain, humans can generously set aside protected areas and allow precious creatures to live there.
This is compassion and kindness from human beings, and it is by no means a reason to allow these livestock to act recklessly. If animals have wisdom, they should be grateful to human beings.
Once humans feel threatened, they naturally have the right to take back everything.
Even taking back the other person's right to life. This is a natural right that humans have as the rulers at the top of the food chain on this planet.
Smith thinks so, but he is far from the only one who thinks so. Perhaps most of humanity thinks so.
Chiba Prefecture Private Safari Park
This zoo attracted a lot of attention when it first opened because it breeds and raises endangered animals from all over the world, most of which have been declared extinct in the past.
But now it appears alive in this zoo.
"It's like Noah's Ark after the great flood, when the water receded and they finally found land and opened the cabin."
Someone once said this, and everyone agreed with it. It is indeed true.
A miraculous zoo that allows creatures destined for extinction to reproduce once again.
The tickets to the zoo were not expensive, and Kurosaki thought that the Oshima family who opened the zoo made a lot of money. In fact, the zoo did not make much profit. Compared with the tickets, it received more donations from all walks of life.
There are even foundation organizations established spontaneously by the private sector.
But all this money is used to maintain the zoo. The breeding and raising of these precious endangered animals requires a lot of daily expenses.
At least in this project, the Oshima family did not make any profit, nor did they plan to make any profit. They even took the initiative to subsidize some of the project.
An area along the coast on the west side of the zoo was deliberately left open, where some large animals would be kept.
The kind with a body length of more than 20 to 30 meters.
In the past two or three months, some "large animals" have moved in. In the past, they were called "monsters." But they are just larger animals, and their homeland is also the Earth.
Now, the zoo has new residents.
A pair of sea turtles and their baby turtles that have not yet hatched from their shells.
Although they are really big and scary, they are very well-behaved, or should we say lazy. At first, even the staff were a little scared, but after getting familiar with them, even the most timid tourists were no longer worried, and many even came to take pictures with them.
Sea turtles can lie in the sun all day without moving, and they can take a nap for five or ten years.
“I always feel that they look a little sad.”
One day, Chise stared at the turtle for a long time and suddenly said this.
“Maybe it’s because it’s too far from home.”
The climate here is completely different from that in the South Pacific and is not their home.
“So when can they go home?”
"It depends on humans. When can we stop being afraid of them and truly coexist peacefully with other life on this planet?"
It’s not about being superior, but about being able to respect each other as fellow life forms born on Earth.
"This will probably take a long time, right?"
"Yeah, very long." Ling also lay on the guardrail, looking at the turtle, but her vision was unfocused and her thoughts had already drifted away.
"But if such a day really comes, I think it will be worth it no matter how long it takes. This planet will definitely be willing to wait for humans."
Trust must be a more powerful weapon than missiles and warships.
Chapter 348: Unexpected Visitor
[If Ultraman doesn't kill monsters for us, how can humans trust Ultraman in the future? ]